next is a viewer from brooklyn, new york, oca is on the phone, our independent line, good morning, welcome to the program. oca. caller: good morning. look, the problem i really have with books on parties, it's not really about barack obama or mitt romney. we should concentrate on ask the people in congress who have no morals with their behavior and attitude of no compromise and moving the country forward. host: and in fact, congressional approval overall is in the single digits. the high single digits, 8 percent, 9 percent, approve of what congress is doing. guest: i actually think the biggest struggle the obama administration has had is i don't think they anticipated how difficult it would be to get people to agree. i mean, i think they viewed the president as somebody who was transformational and that he is somebody who could work with both parties but the fact is, from day one, the senate leader, mitch mcconnell, said that his number one goal was to make obama a one-termer. it's not just one party. this is the way washington is now. there is a greater focus on defeating the other side t